The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-08-20

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in hell-at least for Hong Di." Yes
''at least for Hong Di." Probably it
did not occur to that murderous mob,
that they were in danger of going to the
same place. We think it is very true,
as "Oldschool'' seems to intimate, that
there are great many people who do
not believe in the horrors of "orth-
odoxy" except in "a time of excite
ment," such as revival or chang
ing bee," such as this that was held for
the benefit of Hong Di. We quote the
next sentence in this article: "Those
lynchers showed that they had faith in
God, for what was hanging but taking
the murderer away from the control of
the judicial system OF California, which
they regarded as having failed to do
full justice in the case, and sending his
spirit to God to deal with him as he de-
served"
Was not that beautiful and delight
full way of showing faith in God,
hanging that Chinese lad, and sending
him to an endless he'll Please notice
that Hong Di had already been judi
cially tried for his crime; had by the
verdict of the jury been sentenced to
imprisonment for lifeFand as "Califor-
MIA governors are not in the habit of
pardoning Cinnamon, there would be
no opportunity for his doing any more
mischief in the world, and yet this EN-
inent Presbyterian minister thinks the
men who engaged in the lynching of
Hong Di, showed that they had faith
in Cod by taking their victim ''away
from the control of the judicial system
of California" which, by the way, has
not generally been suspected of being
excessively generous to Cinnamon, and
hanging him, and sending him with
malicious purpose, into all the horrors
of hopeless hell I We have thought
and said a good mfny severe things
about Orthodoxy, but we must con-
fess that 1.-THE beauties of orthodoxy"
illustrated in the light of lawless,
murderous mob, hanging Chinese boy
of seventeen, in California, had never
occurred to US. 1t took an "Oldschool"
Presbyterian minister to put it in that
light. The closing words of the last
sentence quoted, represent the mob as
sending his spirit to God, to deal with
him as he deserved" Like Sam We'll
ler, my visions limited;" 1 do not
profess to knewjust gIsre Hong Di is,
what he is doing, orr just what his pres
ent condition is. Wear satisfied, howey
er, to know that he is in the hands of the
Father, who says, "All souls are mine,
and who is infinite in Justice, mercy
and love, and who will deal with this
poor murdered Chinese boy, just as
infinite justice, mercy, and love de-
mand. Toward the close of this strange
article, "Oldschool" represents that
mob as saying in their own justifca-
tion, There is God above us, and he
has a place of torment for the guilty,
and when the jury failed to render a
satisfactory verdict, we took an appeal
to him who proclaimed amid the thun-
ders of Sinai, Thou shalt do no muir
DER"
"Oldschool'' closes his remarkable
article with this sentence "There is
more hope for those orthodox lynchers
than for the cold-blooded skeptics who
try by frigid sophism to chill the in
stinctive faith of fthehuman heart in God,
and in future punishment" We have
no love for skepticism as such, holding
the largest and broadcast Christian
faith, but quite as little love have we
for the idea implied in this sentence,
that the faith of those orthodox lynch
ers, and of other cruel, d-hearted,
and blo0d-thirsty men, will better COM
mend them to the favor of God, than
the big hearts and benevolent purposes
known to be possessed by some hon
est doubters.
Not thine the bigot's partial plea,
Not thine, the zealots ban;
Thou well cans't spare love of thee
That ends in hate to man.
We close with this obvious moral
which we would now especially impress
upon all our friends, who seem to
think all the other churches are getting
so liberal, there is not much more work
for our church to do. So long as such
an article as THE Logic of Lynching,"
can appear upon the front page of a
prominent religious paper, it must be
evident that our church has plenty to
do in protesting against the horrors of
"Oldschool'' creeds, and promulgating
its own faith. J.A.H.
Belle PLdine, IOlOG.
IT was said of a noted evangelist that
he "scOlded like a person who enjoyed